LEGOFREAK wrote:but the question I wanted to ask was - does anyone know for sure whether or not knights painted there armor on a regular basis?

Hehe, since nobody living now was alive back then the only knowledge we can achieve about this matter is from pictures. From contemporary pictures of the respective times that is, pictures from fantasy books don't help much.

And I can't remember ever having seen a painting or picture (miniatures in books, pictures on carpets) that shows knights with completely painted armour. The designs printed on the KK2 armours are "correct", though, as there have been ornaments on armours, but not completely green, red, blue, violet, etc. painted armours.

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This is just the sort of nonsense up with which I will not put.Winston Churchill

I know, KKII is not supposed to be historically accurate. Ok. But if you want to make Power Ranger knights, why try to call them castle.

My point exactly. I don't expect historical perfection, but don't try to market KK2 as castle, because it is simply not. If you want to act as though something is remotely historical, at least make some serious attempts to get your facts right.

Call me old fashioned and a purist, but I think that when dealing with historical things, people should try their best to make it accurate.

I think the armor(as well as the castle designs) of the new KK2 wave is more realistic than the first. They're mixing up armor colors a bit, so it's not one solid color, plus painting their heraldic symbols on the plate armor. Some Shadow Knights have chrome armor; the others are useful as generic soldiers. The shields are triangle and oval now, and we see an end of the yellow and red swords. I think it is a lot more realistic.

I'd think it unlikely we could say an amount, if much armour was ever painted in the medieval. We have a few remaining examples around the world but from art and text we have little proof of it. That said the painted armour that remains looks nothing at all like the KK2 knights.

So we can infer it was done but not a percentage or how frequently it was done. My guess it it was not the most common form of armour protection from the examples we have, oil was easy to come by if you could afford armour.

Not sure of the article you have read but anyone taking such a strong stance would be new to me and I spend all day everyday studying history, in particularly the medieval period and arms and armour, have all the related degrees and such. If you could link me I’d love to read it. Sounds like a pop history article or about a specific area, region, time, etc.

Not apart from paint there are a few other techs for color change. You have varnishing, heat from the hot working of the armour and later oils being heated on the metal. There are more but these come to mind. So there are a few other ways to change color of armour.